This was my first attempt to work with those elegant long rectangles that so struck me in the large wall pieces. It didn't do ANY of what I expected. It is floppy, and has large, loose holes in it, and it would take way too much thread to make it a more stable object. 

It drapes in an interesting way:

shown here across the top of the sewing machine with light behind it. But it is not at all what I was thinking of.